Celebrating people who bring the Internet to life

Blog Posts for 2014

There has been a lot happening in Internet Hall of Fame-related news recently. Here are just a few of the highlights:

Inaugural Internet Hall of Famers Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn, in separate interviews with the New York Times on Dec. 30, offer slightly differing views on the hot-button issue of network neutrality and the future of the Internet.

Internet Hall of Famer Jimmy Wales advises entrepreneurs at the TEDx conference in Tampa, FL to fail faster: “If your project is doomed, shut it down quickly.” The problem, he said, is not failure, but rather letting yourself “tie your ego to any one project.”

At a conference in London in December, Internet Hall of Famer Richard Stallman called for a “truly anonymous” crypto-currency that will “...

“How We Create the Internet,” by Internet Hall of Fame Advisory Board member Andreu Veà, is a thoroughly engrossing new book about the Internet, its history, and the people who built it. Veà, founder and current president of the Internet Society’s Spanish Chapter, provides readers with hundreds of personal stories, in their own words, from those who have created the Internet.

But don’t take our word for it: Here’s what three Internet Hall of Famers are saying.

Vint Cerf, co-inventor of the Internet: “In this book, Dr. Veà blazes a trail for historians to follow. I am convinced that his contribution will represent a global landmark in the field, occupying the attention of serious scholars for many years.”

Paul Mockapetris, inventor of the Domain Name System: “At last, we can get first-person reports about the creation of the Internet, and analysis of what it means, by an accomplished scholar. The agreements, conflicts and human side are all here.”

And Ray Tomlinson, inventor of email, says the book “brings together the...

In 1994, a modest but determined and brilliant engineer named Madam Qiheng Hu led a delegation to the U.S. for discussions with the National Science Foundation, which led to a consensus on setting up the first direct TCP/IP connection in mainland China. In 1997, she went on to found the China Internet Network Information Center and has chaired its steering committee ever since. This committee manages the operation and development of Internet resources in the world’s most populous nation. In addition, she is president of the Internet Society in China, which she helped found in 2001. For these among other achievements, she was inducted in 2013 into the Internet Hall of Fame. Following are excerpts from an interview with her conducted by Internet Hall of Fame Advisory Board Member Andreu Veà, in conjunction with the new book he has just published, entitled “How We Create the Internet.”